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Show But Fire Is Now Under Control! Latest Press Reports from San Francisco Say That Fire has Burned Itself Out. The latest dispatches lecelvcd from San Francisco up to (I o'clock Friday evening say: Fire now under control. JJJ It Is probable that one-fourth of the residence section of the city Is saved. I Work of clearing the business sec tion on Market street to the ferries 1 , lias already been begun. 300,000 people are without shelter and with but little food despite gener- oslty of the cities and towns far and I near. I Mayor SchmlU and Gov. Pardee 1 make the statement that any kind of I help, so It comes quickly, will be ap- S gi predated beyond expression. m The estimated financial loss reaches 1 from $:i5o,ooo,ooo to $500,000,000. A dispatch from Washington says J I that President Roosevelt has Issued a S 1 proclamation calling on the peoule of J I the United-States to contribute to the 5 I aellef fund. The President gave $1000. HI These dispatches will be elaborated on by the dally press, but brief as they u are. they contain all salient facts of f the situation at this time.. j The earthquake that came Wed ties- day morning at 5:15 and the lire fol- jj lowing which raged until yesterday at I noon has done a damage to property 1 'if untold, and it is doubtful if the loss of HI I life will ever be accurately told, for I ' many crushed beneath the buildings 1 have been consumed by the territic 1 conllagratlon. 9 The last estimate placed the list of 1 dead at 400 and injured at 1,000 This I , may be doubled or trebled, or lessened I perchance. 3 All the business section on both I sides of Market is. destroyed either I by the shock or lire. All presses- B patches concur In this report. The fig greatest business buildings, the great SI hotels, 'practically all the great banks, the theaters, and thousands of lesser buildings :ire crushed or gutted. A fierce wind, usual In San Francisco fanned the llames, and from the business section of the city the lire extended Into the le'sldencc portions por-tions wheie It licked up the homes of thou .ands of people. Dynamite was used In attempts to stop the llames, but proved unavailing, un-availing, the lire leaping seemingly impossible gaps. The lire department was of the least service on account ac-count of lack of equipment which was destroyed, and the breaking of water mains. .'100,000 people arc said to be tenting In various parks or resting under any available shelter in the open. Most of these are said to be taking the matter rather philosophically, seeking seek-ing to make the best of a bad situation. |